Dinosaur Rocket (Preschool and Two's SRP)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Ralph and the Rocket Ship

*I was really excited to read this book to the preschoolers, and I even made a rocket ship out of my box. The preschoolers enjoyed the book, but not as much as I had hoped. Sometimes a book will work, and sometimes it doesn't!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game with Spaceship

Little rocket, little rocket playing hide-and-seek?

Are you behind the {blue} planet? Let’s take a peek! (My words)  

Credit:  http://lady-librarian-life.blogspot.com/2017/03/flannelboard-spaceship.html

Book: Crunch the Shy Dinosaur

*The kids went wild over this book! Its a brand new book for us, and I'm so glad that I read it. Plus, its interactive, so that makes it that much better! I highly recommend you checking it out!

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Dinos Jumping on the Bed

Book: Can You See Me?

*While I was reading this book, my volunteer was behind me with a dinosaur. As I would read, a dinosaur would pop up, causing the preschooler to scream and holler! They got so excited, I had to cut the book very short. Not a bad thing at all, I just didn't expect them to get that happy with the dinosaur appearing behind me!

Our take home craft today was a rocket!

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Shape by Shape

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game with Spaceship

Little rocket, little rocket playing hide-and-seek?

Are you behind the {blue} planet? Let’s take a peek! (My words)  

Credit:   http://lady-librarian-life.blogspot.com/2017/03/flannelboard-spaceship.html

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Dinos Jumping on the Bed

Book: Crunch the Shy Dinosaur

*This book is a little long for the two's, but they did really well with it! I'm really glad that its an interactive book, because that's the main reason I read it with them. You get to do a lot of things to help Crunch the dinosaur visit you in the book. Such an adorable book!

Action: Scarf Dancing

The craft today was an out-of-this-world rocket! Zoom!!!!

Mooncake for Little Star (Preschool and Two's SRP)

Group and Preschool Storytime:

                       

Opening: Big Books

Book: The Moon Might Be Milk

*I had so much fun reading this book to my preschool kids! I used a lot of props with this, which made it come to life for the preschoolers. The premise of the book is that all the animals in the book think that the moon is made of all the ingredients it takes to make sugar cookies. Here at the library we were blessed to get some new kitchen play items, so I used our sugar cookies as a prop for this. I took the plain cookies and hid them inside my bowl, so the preschoolers thought that I was actually making cookies while I was reading. I took real flour and sugar and sprinkled it into my bowl. Some of it I would blow into the air to show that it was real. Then we all rolled our hands to mix it up and viola! I pulled out the play sugar cookie from the bottom of my bowl. The group that I did storytime for were just spellbound! I placed my cookies on a tray, and put them in my pretend oven. (This was my camera case, which I have a picture of below.) While the cookies were baking, my volunteer put the topping on them, which made some of them turn white on top. The kids were just amazed, which made me so happy!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Moon Hiding Game

Little moon, little moon, hiding in the sky.

Is that you behind the blue cloud I spy?

Credit: Storytime in the Stacks

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Little Dinos Jumping on the Bed

*For this, I've printed out five dino astronauts, that way we can sing five little dinos jumping on the bed. It just makes it easier on the preschoolers.

Book/Flannel: I Will Chomp You!

*It has been so long since I've read this book in storytime, and that is such a sad thing to write! The preschoolers went crazy over it! Probably because they got to do nothing but chomp the whole time. I do have to say, that was quite fun!

Fingerplay: 5 Candles

Five bright birthday candles and not one more,

The red one got blown out  (blow)

Then there were four.

Credit: Annes Library Life

*For this, I have a giant birthday cake, but mine only has three candles. I have the original rhyme that I found online, but I just say three candles. We all try our best to blow the candles out, but sometimes they just come back up! I hold up the cake, and slowly pull the candles down from the back. The preschoolers loved when the candles would just magically pop back up! I've included two pictures of the cake, front and back, to show how the candles are attached.

Action: Feed Monkey Bananas

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

                            

Opening: Big Books

Book/Flannel: Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake

Fingerplay/Flannel: Moon Hiding Game (Picture below)

Little moon, little moon, hiding in the sky.

Is that you behind the blue cloud I spy?

Credit: Storytime in the Stacks

Fingerplay: Three Candles

Five bright birthday candles and not one more,

The red one got blown out  (blow)

Then there were two.

Credit: Annes Library Life

Book: Mixed-Up Truck

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Dinos Jumping on the Bed

Our craft today was an adorable monkey! I was so excited to see how these turned out, but unfortunately I was out sick. I do have a picture of ours, and we changed ours from the original to match the space theme.

Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf_1_5wvB5Y

June New Books 2019

Aliens Love Underpants (SRP Preschool and Two's)

Group and Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Underpants Thunderpants

*For this, my volunteer made silly pair of underpants to use! We had puppets pop up behind me, wearing the underpants, which the preschoolers loved!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Silly Bananas  

*We fed my puppets silly bananas and the preschoolers loved telling me that my bananas were the wrong color.

Book: Bunny Will Not Smile!

*This is my first time reading this book and it was so much fun! You have to make bunny smile, and its not easy. The preschoolers loved making silly faces at me, plus this book is a great read-aloud.

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Little Astronauts Jumping on the Bed

Book/Flannel: Polar Bear’s Underwear

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game with Spaceship

Since it's summer time, we send home our crafts with the preschoolers. For this storytime we sent home an alien with underwear!

Extra Read-Alouds:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book/Flannel: Polar Bear’s Underwear

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game with Spaceship

Fingerplay: Yellow Bananas (Feed to puppets)

    Five yellow bananas, sitting by the door,

    I fed the red one to (puppet), then there four

Four yellow bananas, silly as can be,

I fed the pink one to (puppet), then there were three.

    Three yellow bananas, one fell on my shoe,

    I fed the green one to (puppet), then there were two.

Two yellow bananas, underneath the sun,

I fed the blue onen to (puppet), then there was one.

    One yellow bananas,  what was I to do?

    I fed the white one to(puppet) and then I had zero.

Book: Pop-Up Peekaboo Space

Fingerplay/Flannel: 5 Astronauts Jumping on the Bed

Book: Don’t Wake the Tiger!

*This book is amazing! When you turn the page, the face will change of the animal. The two's went crazy over this! Sadly, I only read this to the groups that were visiting.

Our craft today was polar bear in his underwear!

SRP Decorations

Sorry for the delay, but I finally got our auditorium finished!  YEAH!!!!  I have to give a shout-out to my boss for making the amazing origami stars!  I did find all of the ideas on pinterest for the drawings.  All I did was draw them out, then make them out of paper.

At first, I wasn't super enthused about space, but after getting everything up I can truly say this is one of my favorite themes now!  I've included close-up shots and then a few long shots so you can see it all at once.